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Anyone Happy To Admit To Panic Buying/Stockpiling?
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Palacefinder General
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- Apr 5, 2019
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Tesco, Fred, just ‘Tesco’
Neville's Breakfast
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And nothing to do with you failing to foresee what’s about to happen ? There are things we cannot buy so we have bought replacements instead but we don’t feel the need to insult people. This thread is just another excuse for angry, abusive virtue signallers to indulge themselves in angry abusive virtue signaling. I’m sure when this is all over these character traits will be return to the Brexit thread.
Perhaps you should be asking why it is that shops up here in Norfolk are still reasonably well stocked despite people stocking up, whereas down your way it is not working.
darkwolf666
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Sorry, there is a massive difference between being pragmatic and having a few extra of what you need, and raiding shops like a plague of locusts - then selling on on eBay and Amazon at massively inflated prices.
Pull up the ladder, I’m fine and **** you poor, old and sick people!
Horses Arse
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Have bought more lentils etc. Not stockpiling but cupboards more full now than we normally have them. Purely down to shops being stripped of goods made us change from the bare minimum approach.
I bought a pack of toilet rolls last Monday, just the one as the shelves were reasonably full. Now there's none anywhere so I kind of regret that a little now.
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I bought a pack of toilet rolls last Monday, just the one as the shelves were reasonably full. Now there's none anywhere so I kind of regret that a little now.
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Neville's Breakfast
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Of course there is. However you and others have not been making that distinction. Reselling on EBay should be illegal. No dispute about that. However, there have been posts on NSC condemning families for having full shopping trolleys. When people are finding a new outlet for their anger issues they don’t know the extent to which people are stocking up. My wife and I stock up more in advance of Christmas than we are now. Every year we buy way more food than we need for weeks and weeks and barely go out in January. Perhaps supermarkets should have foreseen the surge in demand weeks ago and had stock available like they do every Christmas. We certainly foresaw it. When you/others are condemning people for their choices perhaps you should not assume that those choices involve reselling on EBay.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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The supermarkets could have nipped this in the bud by imposing sensible limits on certain goods eatlydoors, instead of being happy to take the selfish w@nkers money
darkwolf666
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Angry people, too ****ing right.
My wife has cancer and falls into the “high at risk” category - can she get hand sanitiser, no she ****ing can’t, can she get ear pieces for the thermometer that she needs to take her temperature, yes, at 4 times the price they were 2 weeks ago. Can she get Paracetemol for the pain she’s in, no she can’t as the locusts have eaten them all.
Now tell me I’m a virtue signaller...!
**** you and your I’m alright Jack attitude...
jordanseagull
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- Feb 11, 2009
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Some of the selfishness on this thread is pretty staggering. Why bother to come on here and justify stockpiling by saying ‘well it makes sense because now I have what I need for an extended period of time’. Well, no shit Sherlock.
Clearly the point is that as society adjusts over the next few weeks and perhaps months, we need to protect more vulnerable people. The only way to do that food/supplies wise is by living well within our means. Even if that means you run out of things sometimes. Or have to make do without some of the things you’re used to. It won’t be forever, or even for long.
If that makes me - an anti-PC snowflake-hating centre-right mid-20s guy - a ‘virtue signaller’ then so be it.
P.s. I have two rolls of loo roll left but won’t be buying any more yet. How heroic!
Clearly the point is that as society adjusts over the next few weeks and perhaps months, we need to protect more vulnerable people. The only way to do that food/supplies wise is by living well within our means. Even if that means you run out of things sometimes. Or have to make do without some of the things you’re used to. It won’t be forever, or even for long.
If that makes me - an anti-PC snowflake-hating centre-right mid-20s guy - a ‘virtue signaller’ then so be it.
P.s. I have two rolls of loo roll left but won’t be buying any more yet. How heroic!
jordanseagull
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- Feb 11, 2009
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A perfect example of the stockpiling mentality.
Even now people are making ‘repeat visits’ to get round the limit
jordanseagull
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- Feb 11, 2009
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All the best mate.
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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The media is to blame for pretty much EVERYTHING! They're like flies around shit
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Horses Arse
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Tesco yesterday had no bogroll, no dry pasta, no hand sanitiser, no tinned tomatoes or tomato puree, very lttle other tinned stuff and a lot of the fresh fruit and veg was low/empty. Later went into Waitrose and it was the same. Some people must now have months worth of stuff hoarded.
Read in the press yesterday the Uk is a net exporter of bogroll - there is no chance of the country running out of it [emoji2369][emoji2369]
Read in the press yesterday the Uk is a net exporter of bogroll - there is no chance of the country running out of it [emoji2369][emoji2369]
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What a load of old bolloxs. Supermarkets and supply chains are set up as a 'just in time' system. I'm not sure why they should change it because of selfish idiots like you. If everyone shopped normally then there would be enough to go round. Unfortunately some people are too pig ignorant to understand that.
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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People are selfish, society is selfish, our leaders are selfish. For every decent person theres 10 selfish to follow
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Moshe Gariani
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- Mar 10, 2005
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Haven’t read whole thread but a very selfish aspect of this is people booking deliveries when they are able to go themselves.
All the supermarket delivery slots should be left available for older and more vulnerable people. There are, apparently, currently no delivery slots available.
All the supermarket delivery slots should be left available for older and more vulnerable people. There are, apparently, currently no delivery slots available.
Skint so no choice.